Home Health & Hospice Care

Medical professionals who have chronically ill patients often have to navigate home health and hospice care options. At Amedisys, we focus on delivering the care that’s best for your patient, whether that is home-based care focused on empowering your patients to manage a chronic disease, palliative care for those with a terminal illness, or hospice care at the end of life. Our clinicians are trained to ensure your patient has the right health care support at every stage.

At Amedisys, our team of home health and hospice specialists offer expertise in managing the complex needs of your patients. If you have patients who could benefit from home healthcare and hospice to address chronic and terminal conditions such as CHF, cancer, COPD, diabetes and kidney disease, Amedisys can help.

Home Health

We can help make hospital visits shorter and less frequent home-based skilled nursing, rehabilitation and chronic disease management. The focus is on recovery, quality of life and independence.

Services include:

·Skilled nursing

·Home health aides

·Specialty rehabilitation programs

·Physical therapy

·Occupational therapy

·Speech therapy

·Medical social workers

·Chronic care programs

Hospice

Hospice care is provided to patients with a life expectancy of six months or less, wherever the patient calls home. Care is delivered by specially trained physicians, nurses, certified nursing assistants, social workers, chaplains and vounteers.